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Lopez-Cantera Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $25,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $62,505 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $37,005 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE MIAMI | $15,000 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY | $3,500 |
| PARENT TO PARENT OF MIAMI | $2,500 |
| MAS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $1,000 |
| LIGA CONTRA EL CANCER | $1,000 |
| ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- JHJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2022 · $80k · revenue +107%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +36%- LLLive Like Bella Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- FGFLORIDA GRAN OPERAone grant, 2019 · $15k
- UOUniversity of Miamigraduatedone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +87%
- FGFLORIDA GRAND OPERA INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -92%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of greater miami opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera. by expanding its reach to diverse communities throughout miami and fort lauderdale and wider audiences abroad creating a…
Miami music project uses music as an instrument for social transformation, empowering children to acquire values and achieve their full potential, positively affecting their society through the study and performance of music. our vision is…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of miami cancer institute at baptist health, inc is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve.…
Nicklaus Children's Health System is the region's only healthcare system exclusively for children. Our mission is to inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child. TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS OF, OR TO…
Miami jewish health systems, inc. was incorporated to provide shelter for the elderly and develop social & health programs relating to their care. in addition, research & educational programs are conducted for the elderly to enhance their…
Community orchestra
Barry university is a catholic institution of higher education founded by the adrian dominican sisters. with a liberal arts tradition, barry university is a scholarly community committed to the highest academic standards in undergraduate,…
The organization's mission is to affect positively the quality of life for persons with cerebral palsy and other developmental disabilities, to meet their multiple needs and those of their families, and to prevent developmental…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parent to Parent of Miami Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Thomas the Apostle Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Live Like Bella Inc ↗
- Who funds PARENT TO PARENT OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds LIGA CONTRA EL CANCER INC (LEAGUE AGAINST CANCER INC) ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GRAND OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds PALMER TRINITY PRIVATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds MARGI HAPPENINGS INC ↗
- Who funds IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds METRO AQUATIC CLUB OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds PINOSTRONG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FUND INC F/K/A DADE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROBERT PARKER FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · Assurant Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · United Way Miami Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lopez-Cantera Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Parent to Parent of Miami Inc — 13% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Education Fund Inc F/K/a Dade Public Education Fund in — 0% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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